Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[ValarieF]

That’s too bad, well it’s not all bad having to get up and let them out

I love how mine barrel / fly out the door haahaha, and some just wait till I lift them down, or just want to sleep in

Im up at 4 am

 

[rural mouse]

Glad your hip is giving you better mobility, and you are wise to not over do it.

I think a dusting of the lime should be good, sounds like you have it well under control!

Re: electric fencing, yes I was also thinking that 4 strands of electric twine set at 6”, 12” then 2’& 3’ would be inexpensive and zap the crap out of predators like coyotes, foxes and dogs! Also give any mink, or other a good lifter if they stuck a nose on it (mwah-ha-ha! I love electric fencing). Grass/weeds can be kept down by just spraying the fence line with some round up couple times a year!

I used rebar (for posts) with the screw on insulators for just such a fence in the past.

Dry ground requires a proper ground rod at least 8’ in the ground, and maybe 2 ground rods. I had to do that here.

Bookmarking for later use

 

[rural mouse]

Updated pics of chooks and tweenies the babies are big. Hades is biggest and is obsessed with biting me in the butt! Dottie jumps on me and acts like shes gonna peck my eyes out. They are blue.

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Your big girls are picking up their faces. Getting all grown up.

 

[Cold-Blood]

Hey Noah, long time

Yup-life has been busy.

 

[ValarieF]

Your big girls are picking up their faces. Getting all grown up.

Yea dottie is really red

 

[Ponypoor]

Im up at 4 am

I might be awake then but no way I am getting up!

 

[Ponypoor]

No trace.

Glad the hip is healing.

Is there a way to rig something on a long stick (like a broom handle) to disperse the mite stuff?

Good thought - wonder how big her coop is? Maybe one of those spray Wanda for herbicide use…?

 

[ValarieF]

This is my Dottie. I can hold her pet her and she let me grab her to pick her up. She is queen of the coop.

 

[ValarieF]

I might be awake then but no way I am getting up!

Sometimes Im up as early as 2 am.

 

[Ponypoor]

WOW it is windy here, and very warm.

It’s so windy the kiddos won’t come outside! They keep getting blown around hahahaha. I told them this was the best time to be outside because birds (aka hawks) couldn’t fly hahaha!

They are all hanging out in the barn, while I sit out here alone it’s 22c, but I feel a change coming, the warm wind is turning chilly as this cold front pushes through.